The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| January 8 | Victor Darley-Usmar, Ph.D. Pathology Department, UAB |
"Mechanisms for the Control of Cardiovascular Function by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species" |
| January 15 | Aminul Islam, MD, MSc, DrPH Dept of Epidemiology and International Health, UAB |
"Childhood Malnutrition: Bangladesh Perspectives" |
| January 22 | Catherine Davis, Ph.D. Medical College of Georgia |
"Exercise and insulin Sensitivity: What is the Evidence?" |
| January 29 | Mark Shriver, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Penn State |
"Using Ancestry to Study the Genetics of Traits and Diseases in Human Populations" |
| February 5 | Xu Cao, Ph.D. Department of Pathology, UAB |
"A Novel Mechanism in the TGF-b/BMP Signaling Pathway" |
| February 11 | John Speakman, DSc University of Aberdeen, Scotland |
"Limits to Sustained Metabolic Rate" |
| February 19 | Catherine Fenster, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
" Vascular Nitric Oxide Production: Associations with Physical Activity, Body Fat, Race and Plasma Lipids" |
| March 5 | O. Dale Williams, Ph.D. Department of Medicine, UAB |
"Weight Gain in the US CARDIA Study vs Four Samples in China: The CARDIA Study and the US-PRC Collaboration in Cardiopulmonary Epidemiology." |
| March 12 | Keith West, DrPH, MPH Johns Hopkins University |
"Vitamin A Deficiency and Reproductive Health in the Developing World." |
| March 19 | Pi-Ling Chang, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation and Osteogenic Differentiation." |
| April 2 | Douglas White, Ph.D. Auburn University |
"Low Dietary Protein as a Model of Diet-Induced Obesity" |
| April 9 | Gerald Shulman, MD, Ph.D. Yale University |
"Pathogenesis of Insulin Resistance" |
| April 16 | Cristina Lara, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Visceral Adipose Tissue in Pre-Menopausal Women: Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Fat Gain, Time, and Race." |
| August 6 | Angelo del Parigi, MD NIDDK-NIH |
"Neuroimaging and Obesity" |
| September 3 | Richard Baumgartner, Ph.D. University of New Mexico |
"Sarcopenic-Obesity in Aging and Disease" |
| September 10 | Richard Weindruch, Ph.D. University of Winconsin |
"Caloric Restriction and Aging: Studies in Rodents and Primates" |
| September 17 | Zhanjiang (John) Liu, Ph.D. Auburn University |
" Genomic Research in Fish Ponds: From Markers to Functional Genomics" |
| September 24 | Noa Noy, Ph.D. Cornell University, NY |
"New Angles in Retinoic Acid Signalling" |
| October 1 | Roger White, Ph.D. Department of Medicine, UAB |
"Obesity and the Vascular Response to Injury in Zucker Rats" |
| October 8 | Noelle Cockett, Ph.D. Utah State University |
"Continued Exploration of the Callipyge Region in Sheep" |
| October 15 | Paul Brookes, Ph.D. Department of Pathology, UAB |
"Concepts Regarding UCPs, Free Radicals and Metabolic Rate" |
| October 22 | Jose Fernandez, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Hablemos de AMOR (Admixture Mapping for Obesity-Related Traits)" |
| October 29 | Barbara Gower, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Metabolic Effects of Estrogen" |
| November 6 | Matthias Tshop, MD German Institute of Human Nutrition |
"Energy Balance Regulation: Afferent Signals as Novel Drug" |
| November 12 | Dympna Gallagher, EdD Columbia University |
"Body Composition at the Organ/Tissue Level" |
| November 18 | Yuchang Fu, Ph.D. Medical University of South Carolina |
" Adipocyte Lipid Binding Protein (ALBP) Gene Expression and Foam Cell Formation" |
| November 19 | James Mills, MD NICHD's Pediatric Epidemiology Section |
"Folate and Neural Tube Defects" |
| November 26 | Gail Mick, MD Department of Pediatrics, UAB |
"White Adipocyte Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor" |
| December 3 | John Fain, Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Memphis |
" Regulation of Leptin, PAI-1, VEGF, IL-1beta, 6, 8, & 10, TNFalpha, Resistin and Adiponectin Release by Human Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes in Primary Culture." |
| December 10 | Michael Wyss, Ph.D. Department of Cell Biology, UAB |
" Human Estrogen, Plant Estrogens and Salt-Sensitive Hypertension: Is There a Good Estrogen Anymore?" |